Re:minutes (Score 1)

It's very strange. I think in most of the world, you don't get charged for incoming calls, neither on landlines, nor on mobiles, neither local or international. It doesn't make any sense to me (think of abuse).

The only exeception is when you are with you home mobile in a differnet contry, registered with a foreign network. You are using their network, so it kind of makes sense to pay a bit more (actually a fee comparable to the - overpriced - international calls from mobile abroad when at home). The charges for international calls from the foreign network (both to home country or to some other countery) are also higher - also comparable to prices of international phonecalls.

I have a question - GSM phones have a SIM card, which holds your phonebook and SMS among other things. So when you buy a new mobile, you don't have to manually re-type your entire phonebook, you just plug the SIM card to the new phone. Is the opposite still the case in the US?